Listeners rated a Chinese startup's AI voices more realistic and trustworthy than those from Microsoft, Google, and Amazon.

A cochlear implant is a complex electronic device that can improve hearing in individuals with severe to profound hearing loss. While the implant does not restore normal hearing and differs from ...

Trump’s framing of Iran as a direct security threat to the US in his State of the Union address could shape whether ...

The crackle of electricity inside your brain has long been too complex to decode. Artificial intelligence is changing that.

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Auditory illusions, like how a word begins to sound meaningless when repeated, offer clues into the structure of language.

Speech sounds like it is made of words, but that impression has more to do with what’s in our heads than with what comes out of our mouths. In natural speech, there are no clear acoustic boundaries ...

Not revised: This Reviewed Preprint includes the authors’ original preprint (without revision), an eLife assessment, and public reviews. In this study, the authors took advantage of a powerful method ...

This work represents a valuable finding of how single-trial functional connectivity may be used to infer different cognitive states involved in speech perception and production. Although the data and ...

Mixing misleading claims with repeated attacks, President Trump promised relief for Americans but said he needed time to deliver it. By Luke Broadwater Reporting from Washington President Trump ...

A study comparing individuals with misophonia with healthy people found that a triggering sound, that of a buzzing fly, significantly impaired the ability of individuals with misophonia to perceive ...